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  1.  Not rewarded; unrequited.

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c. 1412.  Hoccleve, De Reg. Princ., 2890. No goode dede vnrewardid is, or quytte.

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c. 1440.  Alph. Tales, lxxxi. 64. God will hafe no gude dede vnrewardid.

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1512.  Helyas, in Thoms, Prose Rom. (1828), III. 75. A good dede is never unrewarded ne an evyll unpunisshed.

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1576.  Abp. Sandys, Serm. (1585), 171. Their seruice was vnrewarded, because it was vncontinued.

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1628.  R. H., J. Owen’s Epigr., I. 7. Verses giuen for a New-yeeres-gift, vnrewarded.

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1656.  Sir E. Nicholas, in N. Papers (Camden), III. 270. None can … imagine that so glorious an act can possibly be unrewarded.

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1712.  Blackmore, Creation, VII. 74. While Heaven’s adorers … Their unrewarded innocence maintain.

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1779.  Mirror, No. 35. My obsequious services in the drawing-room passed unrewarded.

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1821.  Byron, Sardanap., III. i. 357. Slain! unrewarded!… that’s hard, poor slave.

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1863.  Mouat, Andaman Islanders, 153. Our persevering search, and our repeated use of the line, were unrewarded with the success we desired.

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  2.  Unpunished.

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1621.  J. Taylor (Water P.), Unnat. Father, Wks. (1630), 140/1. God did neuer suffer Murder to goe vnrewarded.

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1907.  Verney Mem., II. 128. Wickedness does not go for ever unrewarded.

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